Golf-practice device



Aug. 12, [924? 1,504,752

M. GREEN GOLF PRACTICE DEVICE Filed March 1923 I'm enter Patented Aug.12, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN GREEN, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

GOLF-PRACTICE DEVICE.

Application filed March 7, 1923. Serial No. 623,380.

T 0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN GREEN, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at 4:3 Lordship Park, London, England, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Golf-Practice Devices, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an appliance or apparatus for playing a gameand is designed more particularly for use by golf players to enable themto use their various clubs in the manner customary when striking a golfball and play a game within a restricted area such as that, forinstance, of a tennis lawn.

According to my invention substitute for the golf ball a flyerconsisting of small pleces of sheet material of such character as towithstand the full stroke of a wooden or iron golf club without materialdistortion and I provide a base or support designed to rest on theground to form a kind of tee and hold the flyer in a substantiallyupright position but in such a manner that the blow thereon of a golfclub or the like will dislodge it from the said base and drive it awayfrom the club, causing it to fly through the air.

In a suitable arrangement for carrying out the invention the pieces ofsheet material or flyers are made of disc form and the base is also ofdisc form and provided with a central slit into which any one disc orflyer can be placed edgewise so as to be supported in a substantiallyvertical plane in position to be struck by the club. The flyers or thepieces of sheet material may have extensions thereon to engage with theslit and more than one slit may be formed in the base.

The flyer and the base may possess shapes other than that of a disc, forinstance, square, polygonal or oval, and they may be made of leather,rubber, vulcanized fibre, cardboard, mill-board or other material whichis sufiiciently flexible to withstand the blows of the various clubswithout deformation.

To enable the invention to be fully understood I will describeit byreference to the accompanying drawing, in which 1- Figure 1 is anelevation of apparatus made inaccordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is an elevation of the member designed to be struck by the clubdetached from its support and Figure 3 is a plan view thereof.

, Figure 4 is a vertical central section of the support and Figure 5 isa plan view thereof.

a is the flyer consisting of a piece of sheet material preferably indisc form and Z) is'the base or support for holding the disc at in asubstantially upright position, as indicated in Figure 1 in position tobe struck by an ordinary golf club, a being the slit in the centre atthe top of the base 6 into which the edge of the disc a is fitted. Morethan one slit may be formed in the base, as indicated, for instance, bythe dotted lines at 0 Figure 5.

The disc or flyer 64 instead of fitting with its edge in the slit in thebase may have an extension thereon for the purpose, as indicated by thedotted lines at 12 Figure 2.

With the disc or flyer a placed in position on the support 6, as shewn,it will be understood that it can serve in place of a golf ball forpractice play by golfers, the disc a, when struck on its edge by a club,flying through the air away from the club, although by reason of itsform and light weight it will not be projected to any great distancefrom the support 6.

The disc or flyer a has advantageously attached to it a flight retardingdevice preferably consisting of a flexible pendant, as a piece of stringor cord which serves further to retard its flight when projected and thesupport I) can be anchored to the ground by a wire spike d through themedium of a string'oI' cord 6.

Although I have shown the flyer or piece of sheet material a to beprojected as of disc form it is to be understood, as above stated, thatit may possess other shapes, for instance, square, polygonal or oval andthat it may be made of leather, rubber, vulcanized fibre, cardboard,mill-board or other material which is sufficiently flexible to withstandthe blows of the clubs without being deformed.

It is to be understood that the pieces of sheet material and the basetherefor, may be utilized for displaying advertisements.

Claims: l

1. A golf practice device, comprising a flyer of sheet material of suchcharacter as to be capable of withstanding the blow of a golf clubwithout material deformation, said flyer being provided with means fortemporarily supporting it vertically in position to receive the blow ofany ordinary golf club, whereby said flyer will be projected away fromthe club when struck, but will have its-flight limited by its formandlight eight, and a flight retarding device attached to said flyer tofurther limit the extent of its flight.

2. A-golf practice device, comprising a flyer of sheet material of suchcharacter as to be capable of withstanding the blow of 'a golf clubWithout material deformation,

said flyer being provided with means for temporarily supporting itvertically in posi- MARTIN GREEN.

